Talk:Classical Chinese
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It would be great to see this book take off. Unfortunately I don't know enough about the subject to really contribute. On-line resources seem to be scarce as well. I found this snippet when looking through the history, it's not much but at least it contains some info on grammar. Perhaps it could be molded into something for a lesson 2?
[edit] Grammar/sentence structure
[edit] Statements
- "......者......也" or permutations of such:
- "...... ......也" eg. 夫战勇气也 (《曹刿论战》)
- "......者......" or
- "...... ......者也" eg. 城北徐公齐国之美丽者也 (《邹忌讽齐王》)
- This is the archetypal Classical Chinese sentence.
- "......x......" where x is any one of 乃、则、即、为、诚、非、是 etc:
- use of 是 became increasingly common after the Han Dynasty
- Nothing. eg. 刘备天下枭雄 (by 鲁肃)
It's not so hard to find sources of classical Chinese texts on-line, but I haven't seen many grammatical explanations. Links are welcome. Arne Brasseur (talk) 15:31, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Doubts
In "......者......也", 者 is actually either a marker of nominalisation or a or a particle to emphasise what comes before it.
As far as I understand, in usual sentences it is not required to use 者 unless before it a verbal phrase comes or unless it's necessary to underline the subject (sometimes not a subject at all, as in 今者).
"......者......" -- are there really many of these? I guess it's not a nominal sentence (A is B), but a sentence where B is used in the function of verb 'to behave like ...'. Am I mistaken?
Demetrius. 93.84.192.163 (talk) 16:36, 25 September 2009 (UTC)
